As though AAVE is an arbitrary system of made-up words, rather than something real people use every day?.    From Wordnik.com.  [I don’t care if you don’t like it, it’s a fact « Motivated Grammar] Reference

AAVE aka ebonics aks Black English was spoken neither by.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! Answers: Latest Questions] Reference

But I’m not pointing this story out solely because it’s interesting or because I think the tense system of AAVE is kind of beautiful.    From Wordnik.com.  [I don’t care if you don’t like it, it’s a fact « Motivated Grammar] Reference

I disagree that Oprah is good at AAVE code-switching.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Sarah Palin Is Saying - Anil Dash] Reference

Would you call Martin Luther King a member of the AAVE group?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Intrusive r | Linguism | Language Blog] Reference

It always sounds contrived (like a white person speaking AAVE).    From Wordnik.com.  [What Sarah Palin Is Saying - Anil Dash] Reference

Three cheers for singular they, AAVE, and anti-prescriptivism!!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Going to the kids with singular “they” « Motivated Grammar] Reference

At least some of the working-class black kids used AAVE grammar.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Harry Reid’s WTF Moment] Reference

Where in his convention speech did he switch to AAVE or whatever?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Identity Politics for White People] Reference

In fact, the differences between SAE and AAVE are pretty substantial.    From Wordnik.com.  [I don’t care if you don’t like it, it’s a fact « Motivated Grammar] Reference

Sounds like something that might have come up in connection with AAVE.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The last thing we need is a President who encourages festering racial controversies."] Reference

McKingford: How many black politicians lack the ability to switch off AAVE?.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Identity Politics for White People] Reference

The grammatical construction of AAVE, for example is far different from SAE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are You Really A Good Web Worker?] Reference

There are also literary works written in AAVE, which are studied in schools.    From Wordnik.com.  [Students Getting Dumber: The Sky Has Always Been Falling] Reference

More importantly, the syntax of AAVE and SAE are different in meaningful ways.    From Wordnik.com.  [I don’t care if you don’t like it, it’s a fact « Motivated Grammar] Reference

McWhorter may not be the expert you want to refer someone to for greater insights into AAVE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Harry Reid’s WTF Moment] Reference

As for the actual topic of this post, I had no idea that AAVE had such a complex tense system.    From Wordnik.com.  [I don’t care if you don’t like it, it’s a fact « Motivated Grammar] Reference

Is something mad cool that I came across, doing research into AAVE on Wikipedia for my HEL class.    From Wordnik.com.  [Now Here] Reference

Back in 1996, the Oakland Calif. school board passed a resolution recognizing Ebonics/AAVE as a language.    From Wordnik.com.  [I don’t care if you don’t like it, it’s a fact « Motivated Grammar] Reference

Perhaps, but today it is frequently used as a pejorative term for AAVE. (typically followed by eye rolling).    From Wordnik.com.  [What Sarah Palin Is Saying - Anil Dash] Reference

Back in 1996, the Oakland (Calif.) school board passed a resolution recognizing Ebonics/AAVE as a language.    From Wordnik.com.  [I don’t care if you don’t like it, it’s a fact « Motivated Grammar] Reference

Some thought the resolution stated that African-Americans are genetically predisposed to use AAVE over SAE.    From Wordnik.com.  [I don’t care if you don’t like it, it’s a fact « Motivated Grammar] Reference

Many people thought that children were going to be taught AAVE in place of SAE, which would have been a bad idea.    From Wordnik.com.  [I don’t care if you don’t like it, it’s a fact « Motivated Grammar] Reference

Now finally suburban kids will stop with the fake AAVE African-American Vernacular of English and start with the frumspeak!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Pseudo-Jews; or, who pretends to be Jewish at a Matisyahu concert?! | Jewschool] Reference

Linguists prefer African-American Vernacular English, or AAVE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Dean on Understanding Language - Anil Dash] Reference

In AAVE, there is no need to use the verb 'is' in sentences such as this.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

AAVE uses the verb "to be" to mark the habitual form, but omits it otherwise.    From Wordnik.com.  [Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture] Reference

On the syntactic front, AAVE speakers have a more granular tense-marking system.    From Wordnik.com.  [Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture] Reference

But in fact, there are a lot of other linguistic features that characterize AAVE.    From Wordnik.com.  [Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture] Reference

Not every speaker of AAVE needs to exhibit all of them, nor do they only occur in.    From Wordnik.com.  [Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture] Reference

Actually, I’d be interested in seeing MY talk about ebonics (AAVE).    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Teaching Reading Right] Reference

“Actually, I’d be interested in seeing MY talk about ebonics (AAVE).”.    From Wordnik.com.  [Matthew Yglesias » Teaching Reading Right] Reference

It’s the same as Southern English, AAVE, British English … just different varieties.    From Wordnik.com.  [Are You Really A Good Web Worker?] Reference

And is anyone else mildly irritated by Hogan’s comparison of AAVE to using code words?.    From Wordnik.com.  [I don’t care if you don’t like it, it’s a fact « Motivated Grammar] Reference

For instance, AAVE has a complicated tense system I’m getting this info from Ficket 1972.    From Wordnik.com.  [I don’t care if you don’t like it, it’s a fact « Motivated Grammar] Reference

For instance, AAVE has a complicated tense system (I’m getting this info from Ficket 1972).    From Wordnik.com.  [I don’t care if you don’t like it, it’s a fact « Motivated Grammar] Reference

These are just some of the features of AAVE that have been widely studied by linguists (for.    From Wordnik.com.  [Racialicious - the intersection of race and pop culture] Reference